Announcement 2016-06-29: 100th Episode
I’m planning to make the 100th episode a Q&A session, so send in your questions to 3kingdomspodcast@gmail.com by September 30, 2016.
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Hi everyone. I have a quick programming note. The podcast is steadily closing in on its 100th episode, and yes, I’m counting the supplemental episodes, too. I figured that this would be a good time to do an episode to addressing questions you may have about the novel, the time period, or the novel.
Depending on when you are listening to this announcement, we’re about 15 episodes out from reaching the century mark. That’s another four to five months away, so we’re looking at probably the end of October or early November. That seems like a ways off, but I want to get this announcement out there now, so that there would be time for you to submit questions and for me to prepare answers to those questions. I’ll probably stop taking new questions at the end of September so that I can finish writing the episode and record it.
So, if there are questions you’ve been wanting to ask, now’s your chance. Send your questions to 3kingdomspodcast@gmail.com. That email address is listed on the Contact page on the show’s website, 3kingdomspodcast.com.
But what happens if you don’t get many questions, you might ask. Well, in that case, I’d just answer your questions individually via email and move on with the show. If there’s a question that I think is worth addressing to the larger audience for the podcast, I might post it on the website.
Also, I’m going to put forth caveat here that I reserve the right to not answer particular questions or just answer with, “I don’t really know,” because hey, that’s the truth. I’ll do my best to have a good answer for all your questions, but as I said at the beginning of this podcast, I’m not a historian, so there are aspects of the novel or this period in history that I will not be able to address knowledgeably, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise.
Alright, so that’s it. Submit your questions before September 30, 2016, and hopefully our 100th episode will be a question-and-answer session. I’m eager to see what questions you have. So send them to 3kingdomspodcast@gmail.com. And as always, thank you so much for listening and supporting the show.
Have you seen the giant Guan Yu statue in Hubei? There’s a Guan Yu museum inside it. We need a podcast field trip!
http://shanghaiist.com/2016/07/12/giant_guan_yu.php
Thanks Tom! That is impressive! And if we’re taking a field trip, we might as well add the Three Kingdoms City outside Wuxi to the itinerary 🙂
Hello John … I got really interested in RTK after watching the CCTV 2010 series titled TheThree Kingdoms. Since then I have managed to track down a few standalone movies on RTK but none have really come up to mark with the 2010 TV series.
Do you have any favourites films that you believe hold close to the novel that you can recommend.
Thanks very much and really enjoying your work.
Best regards
I haven’t really seen any movies that come close to the novel. Red Cliff was a huge disappointment in that aspect. I think if you’re talking about being faithful to the novel, the 1996 TV series probably comes the closest, but the 2010 version has much higher production value.
Thanks for listening and writing!